University of Central Florida
Partnership I Building
These are research
and educational facilities of the National Center for Forensic Science
A program of the National Institute of Justice hosted by the University
of Central Florida
Lecture Hall
Room 102
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Size: 1125 sq ft
Seating capacity: 75
Facilities available: A/V
equipment: LCD projector, overhead projector, document camera, VCR, internet
access,
electric screen.
Wet Teaching Laboratory #1
Room 221
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Size: 1080
sq ft
Seating capacity: 42
Facilities available: White
Board, Projector Screen, Data Ports, Small Wet Lab Bench
Scanning Electron Microscope
Room 121
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Size:
Seating capacity:
Facilities available: Electron Microscopy
lab contains an etcher/sputter coater for sample preparation and a
Scanning
Electron Microscope with the following detectors; backscatter, secondary
electron, variable pressure
secondary electron, and EDS for X-ray microanalysis
Sensitive Instrument Lab #1
Room 310
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Size: 450
sq ft
Seating capacity: 8
Facilities available: Instrument
lab containing two gas chromatograph/mass spectrometers (GC/MS). One
instrument
is dedicated to the Ignitable Liquids Reference Collection.
Sensitive Instrument Lab #2
Room 311
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Size: 600
sq ft
Seating capacity: 12
Facilities available: Contains
two liquid chromatography/mass spectrometers (LC/MS): a Thermo-Finnigan
LCQ-DUO LC/MS/MS ion trap mass spectrometer and an Agilent LC/MSD HP 1100
quadruple mass spectrometer.
Both instruments are being used for research
of explosive residues and of dyes.
Microscopy Laboratory
Room 313
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Size: 600
sq ft
Seating capacity: 12
Facilities available: Microscopy
Lab used for microscopic sample preparation and analysis. Contains a Fourier
Transform Infrared microscope, Nikon polarized light microscope with dark field,
fluorescence, DIC and video
capabilities, and a stereomicroscope.
Computer Forensics Training Lab
Room 315
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Size: 950
sq ft
Seating capacity: 25
Facilities available: This room, generously
furnished by a grant from the FBI, consists of 24 student computers
and
one instructor position. The room also includes an overhead projector and
instructor controlled Creston
lighting system. The computers are all Dell
Optiplex 745 Minitowers running 2.40GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processors,
with 2GB Ram. Each is running Windows XP. In addition each contains a virtual image of Linux Fedora 6, and
Windows XP running under VMware.
Computer Forensics Research
Lab
Room
312
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Size: 950
sq ft
Seating capacity: 19
Facilities available: Xiotech
San Server
Explosives Research
Room 309
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Size: 1200
sq ft
Seating capacity: 24
Facilities available: This lab is used for
chemical preparation of samples for analysis by LC/MS. Samples include
mainly explosives, but also other physical evidence samples, such as dyes
extracted from fibers.
Room 314
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Size: 1150
sq ft
Seating capacity: 23
Facilities available: (coming
soon)
Forensic Anthropology Research Lab
Room 320
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Size: 1150
sq ft
Seating capacity: 23
Facilities available: Contains a stable isotope ratio mass spectrometer
for the analysis of Carbon, Nitrogen,
Oxygen, Sulfur and Hydrogen. The
facilities are for the analysis of skeletal remains (both archaeological
and
forensic)
DNA Research Lab #1
Room 321
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DNA Instrument Room
Room 321A
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DNA Instrument Room
Room 321B
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Size: 1000 sq
ft
Seating capacity: 20
Facilities available: PCR
Thermocyclers, Capillary Electrophoresis and Pyrosequencing instruments
DNA
Research Lab #2
Room 322
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Size: 1000 sq
ft
Seating capacity: 20
Facilities available: PCR
Thermocyclers, Capillary Electrophoresis and Pyrosequencing instruments
Trace Evidence
Lab
Room 323
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Size: 1150 sq
ft
Seating capacity: 23
Facilities available: Lab benches, fume hoods
and data ports.
This page is maintained by
David Galat dgalat@mail.ucf.edu
Last update: April 29, 2008